Title: The Narrative of a Japanese; What Has Seen and the People He has Met in the Course of the Last Forty Years Author: Heco, Joseph Place: San Francisco Publisher: American-Japanese Publishing Association Date: [c. 1950] Description: Volume 1 only (of 2). (8vo) original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Facsimile of the 1893 first edition. Joseph Heco [Hamada Hikozo] (1837-1897), a native of the province of Sanyodo, went to sea in 1850. When his ship was dismasted, he and other members of the crew were rescued by an American ship which took Heco to California, and the young Japanese did not return to his native land until 1859. The narrative contains Heco's reminiscences, based on diaries that he began to keep as soon as he had mastered English. In this first volume, he describes his boyhood in Japan and the voyage that brought him to America; a trip to Hong Kong; and a return voyage to San Francisco, where a local businessman sponsors Heco's education and travels to New York and Baltimore. This volume concludes with Heco's return to Japan in 1859 and work as interpreter for the U.S. Consulate and a second trip to America, 1861- 1862. Lot Amendments Condition: Paper a touch browned; very good. Item number: 240348
Title: The Narrative of a Japanese; What Has Seen and the People He has Met in the Course of the Last Forty Years Author: Heco, Joseph Place: San Francisco Publisher: American-Japanese Publishing Association Date: [c. 1950] Description: Volume 1 only (of 2). (8vo) original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Facsimile of the 1893 first edition. Joseph Heco [Hamada Hikozo] (1837-1897), a native of the province of Sanyodo, went to sea in 1850. When his ship was dismasted, he and other members of the crew were rescued by an American ship which took Heco to California, and the young Japanese did not return to his native land until 1859. The narrative contains Heco's reminiscences, based on diaries that he began to keep as soon as he had mastered English. In this first volume, he describes his boyhood in Japan and the voyage that brought him to America; a trip to Hong Kong; and a return voyage to San Francisco, where a local businessman sponsors Heco's education and travels to New York and Baltimore. This volume concludes with Heco's return to Japan in 1859 and work as interpreter for the U.S. Consulate and a second trip to America, 1861- 1862. Lot Amendments Condition: Paper a touch browned; very good. Item number: 240348
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